(meteorobs) Hale-Bopp!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Hale-Bopp!!!!!!!!!!!
• From: NTZT04A@prodigy.com ( THOMAS T WOJACK)
• Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:32:55, -0500
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Folks,

I finally glimpsed Hale-Bopp!  I would rate it's magnitude at 1.1-1.4.
  I saw the jets, but no nucleus splitting. Naked eye, the comet 
looks fuzzy, and has a 15'-30' tail.  In binoculars, it has a tail of 
45'-60'.  In my 6" Dob, I resolved the dust and ion tails, along with 
that interseting jet..dot it's really wonderful...the tail length in 
telescope was 1d-3d.  My LM was between 3.5 and 4.2.  I tried to look 
at Mars, but the Moon was in the way and Mars was only 10d over my 
neighbors' roof.  BTW, I saw a mag 3 meteor while estimating Hale-
Bopp's magnitude, speed was 5.  It's path was roughly 10d-25d above 
Hale-Bopp, heading SE.

Jonathan(NTZT04A@prodigy.com)
http://pages.prodigy.com/Astro/homepage.htm

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